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Definitions

• the present invention relates to the field of medicine, in particular of oncology. It concerns improvements in the treatment of cancer with high and low CDA (Cytidine Deaminase) expression level and the selection of patients for such treatments, kits and methods for screening compounds useful to improve treatment of cancer with high or low CDA expression level.
• CDA Cytidine Deaminase
• Cytidine deaminase is an enzyme of the pyrimidine salvage pathway catalyzing the hydrolytic deamination of cytidine and deoxycytidine to uridine and deoxyuridine, respectively (Demontis S et al, Biochim Biophys Acta, 1998, 1443:323-33).
• CDA plays an important role in the sensitivity/resistance of cancer cells to treatment with cytidine analogs, and CDA overexpression has been reported to be a good marker for resistance to chemotherapy based on cytidine analogs (Neff T and Blau CA, Exp Hematol. 1996; 24: 1340-6; Weizman N et al., Oncogene. 2014; 33:3812-9).
• CDA expression level can be used in cancer treatment as a new biomarker for selecting of the appropriate treatment.
• the present invention concerns an in vitro method for selecting a patient affected with a tumor for a treatment with an antitumor compound or for predicting the response of a patient affected with a tumor to a treatment with an antitumor compound, wherein the method comprises:
• the invention also concerns an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4 for use in the treatment of a cancer in which CDA expression level is lower than a reference expression level.
• the invention also concerns an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3 for use in the treatment of a cancer in which CDA expression level is higher than a reference expression level.
• the antitumor compound selected when CDA expression level is lower than the reference expression level is aminoflavone.
• the antitumor compound selected when CDA expression level is higher than the reference expression level is dasatinib.
• said cancer in which CDA expression level is lower than a reference expression level has a CDA expression level at least two times, preferably at least four times, less than the reference expression level, even more preferably said cancer do not express CDA.
• said cancer in which CDA expression level is higher than a reference expression level has a CDA expression level at least two times, preferably at least four times, even more preferably at least ten times, more than the reference expression level.
• the reference expression level is the expression level of CDA in a normal sample, preferably in a normal sample from the same tissue or a tissue counterpart, even more preferably in a normal sample from the same tissue or a tissue counterpart of the same patient.
• the reference expression level can be the average of the expression level of CDA in normal samples from several patients.
• the reference expression level is the expression level of CDA in a noncancerous cell-line or the average of the CDA expression level of several non-cancerous cell- lines, preferably said cell-line(s) derivate(s) from the same tissue as the cancer sample.
• the reference expression level may also be the average of the CDA expression levels of cancer samples from several patients, preferably cancer samples of the same tissue.
• the expression level of CDA can be determined by measuring the quantity of CDA protein or CDA mRNA.
• the tumor is a solid or a hematopoietic tumor, preferably a solid tumor.
• the cancer is selected from the group consisting of the prostate cancer, the lung cancer, the breast cancer, the gastric cancer, the kidney cancer, the ovarian cancer, the hepatocellular cancer, the osteosarcoma, the melanoma, the hypopharynx cancer, the esophageal cancer, the endometrial cancer, the cervical cancer, the pancreatic cancer, the liver cancer, the colon or colorectal cancer, the neuroendocrine tumors, the malignant tumor of the muscle, the adrenal cancer, the thyroid cancer, the uterine cancer, the skin cancer, the bladder cancer, the head and neck cancer, the lymphoma, and the leukemia.
• the patient is an animal, preferably a mammal, even more preferably a human.
• the patient is a new-born, a children or an adult, preferably an adult, even more preferably an adult of at least 50 years old.
• the invention also concerns an in vitro method for screening or identifying an antitumor compound suitable for treating a cancer in which CDA expression level is lower than a reference expression level comprising:
• the invention also concerns an in vitro method for screening or identifying an antitumor compound suitable for treating a cancer in which CDA expression level is higher than a reference expression level comprising:
• the reference expression level is the expression level of CDA in a noncancerous cell or the average of the CDA expression level of several non-cancerous cells, preferably said cell(s) originate(s) from the same tissue as the cancer cell.
• the reference expression level is the average of the CDA expression levels of cancer samples from several patients, preferably cancer samples of the same tissue as the cancer cell.
• the screening methods further comprises the selection of a test compound which do not reduce the proliferation rate of cells having a CDA expression level of about the reference expression level.
• the screening methods further comprises the selection of a test compound which do not reduce the proliferation rate of normal cells.
• the invention also concerns the use of the expression level of CDA as a marker for selecting a patient affected with a tumor for a treatment with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4 or with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, or for predicting the efficacy of a treatment with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4 or with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, wherein the CDA expression level of a cancer sample lower than the reference expression level being predictive of the efficacy of a treatment with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4, and wherein the CDA expression level of a cancer sample higher than the reference expression level being predictive of the efficacy of a treatment with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3.
• the invention also concerns the use of a kit for selecting a patient affected with a tumor for a treatment with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4 or with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3 and/or for predicting the efficacy of a treatment with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4 or with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, and/or for screening or identifying an antitumor compound suitable for treating a cancer in which CDA expression level is lower than a reference expression level or an antitumor compound suitable for treating a cancer in which CDA expression level is higher than a reference expression level
• the kit comprises detection means selected from the group consisting of a pair of primers, a probe and an antibody specific to CDA, and a combination thereof, and, optionally, a leaflet providing guidelines to use such a kit.
• Figure 1 CDA expression levels in cancer cell lines and tissues.
• B Real-time RT-qPCR and western blot analysis of CDA expression in a set of 26 cell lines for three different cancers (breast, non-small lung and ovary) representative of the Curie Institute (left panel) and NCI60 (right panel) panels.
• the results are presented as percentages of tumors expressing low (black) and high (gray) levels of CDA on the basis of the scores obtained (Low: scores 0-1 and High: scores 2-3). For all images, the scale bar is 50 ⁇ . The percentage of low- CDA cancer tissues is indicated in the black bars E, Scatter dot plot with mean + SD for transcriptomic data for CDA transcripts, comparing unmatched normal and tumor tissues for the liver (GSE14520), esophagus (GSE13898), cervix (GSE9750) and colon (GSE9348).
• Figure 2 Silencing of CDA gene expression by DNA methylation.
• A Mean-centered CDA transcript intensity data for the NCI60 panel of cell lines obtained with the NCI-Cell Miner analysis tool (upper left panel), and mean CDA gene methylation levels in the data for the NCI60 panel of cell lines extracted from GEO under accession number GSE66872 (lower left panel), and representation of the correlation between CDA transcript intensity and CDA promoter methylation for the cg04087271 and cg00784581 probes (Pearson correlation) (right panel).
• B RT-qPCR analysis of the induction of CDA expression relative to GAPDH in cells initially with and without CDA expression, after 96 hours of treatment with 2.5 ⁇ 5-Aza-dC.
• A SCE frequency in CDA-deficient and CDA-proficient cells (left panel) and representation of SCE frequency in cells classified on the basis of their CDA expression status, low or high (right panel). P values were calculated in Mann-Whitney tests for at least 3 independent experiments. P ⁇ 0.05 was considered statistically significant
• B Scatterplot showing a significant negative correlation between aminoflavone cytotoxicity and CDA expression (Pearson correlation) in the NCI60 panel of cell lines. The colors indicate the origin of the cancer tissue.
• C Isogenic HeLa cell lines (HeLa control cells in gray and CDA-depleted HeLa cells in black) were treated for 72 hours with the indicated concentrations of aminoflavone, and the percentage of cells surviving is shown.
• Figure 4 CDA expression levels in cancer cell lines and tissues.
• A Expression data set for CDA mRNA extracted from the Broad-Novartis cancer cell lines encyclopedia (CCLE). The data are presented as log 2 intensity for 1036 cell lines derived from 24 cancers. The horizontal bars represent the mean CDA expression for each cancer type. The mean and median for all cell lines are indicated by continuous and dashed lines, respectively.
• D IHC validation of anti-CDA-primary antibody (ab82347) binding for BS cells not expressing CDA (BS-Ctrl) or constitutively expressing exogenous CDA (BS-CDA).
• the scale bar represents 50 ⁇ .
• E Data set for CDA mRNA levels during cervical cancer progression, extracted from a gene expression analysis available under accession number GSE63514 from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database. P values were calculated in unpaired t- tests and were considered statistically significant if ⁇ 0.05.
• E Schematic representation of the CDA gene, highlighting the various CpG sites used for the calculation of Pearson's correlation coefficient.
• F Scatter plots showing a non- significant correlation between mRNA seq data for CDA expression and CDA methylation in 10 different cancer samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA; (http://cancergenome.nih.gov). The CpG probe is indicated for each cancer. The data are publically available and were retrieved from CBioPortal data base for cancer genomics (http://cbioportal.org) (29,30) and (http://firebrowse.org). Mean CDA expression is indicated by the dashed vertical lines and mean methylation is indicated by the dashed horizontal lines. All P values ⁇ 0.05 were considered statistically significant.
• FIG. 6 Depletion of CDA expression by short hairpin RNA in HeLa cells.
• ⁇ -actin was used as a loading control for western blotting.
• the cell lines have been described elsewhere (19).
• Figure 7 Dasatinib sensitivity of CDA-Proficient cells.
• Isogenic HeLa cell lines HeLa control cells and CDA-depleted HeLa cells
• breast cancer cell lines MCF-7, MDA-MB-468 and MDA-MB-231 (right panel) were treated for 72 hours with the indicated concentrations of Dasatinib. The percentage of cells surviving is shown. Survival curves of cell lines with low levels of CDA expression are represented in blue and the survival curves of cell lines with high levels of CDA expression are shown in red. Cell viability was assessed using MTT assays.
• FIG. B Images of HeLa control cells and CDA-depleted HeLa cells 24h after treatment with 0.5 or ⁇ of Dasatinib or DMSO treatment, showing a strong effect (round cells, blocked in mitosis) on HeLa control cells (expressing CD A), and no effect on CDA-depleted HeLa cells.
• Figure 9 (corresponding to Figure 4A-B of Stark et al, PloS One, 2013, 8:e74525): In vivo antitumor activity of aminoflavone against MDA-MB-468 and MDA-MB-231 xenograft. A,
• MDA-MB-231 and MDA-MB-231/wtERa cell lines were used as the ERa-negative and - positive controls, respectively.
• Lanes 1 and 2 were whole cell lysates from MDA-MB-231 and MDA-MB-231/wtERa cell lines, respectively;
• lanes 3-5 are MDA-MB-231 xenograft tumor tissue lysates obtained from mice treated with the vehicle solution (control), vorinostat 50 mg/kg, or a combination of vorinostat (50 mg/kg) and AFP464 (35 mg/kg), respectively.
• Figure 10 (corresponding to Figure 8B of Schwarz et al, J Clin Invest, 2014, 124(12): 5490- 5502): In vivo antitumor activity of dasatinib against MCF7 xenograft. MCF-7 cells were injected s.c. into athymic ovariectomized mice supplemented with short-term 14-day release 17P-estradiol pellets.
• mice bearing tumors >150 mm 3 were randomized to vehicle, dasatinib (15 mg/kg/d, p.o.), BKM120 (30 mg/kg/d, p.o.) and fulvestrant (5 mg/wk, s.c), or BKM120, fulvestrant, and dasatinib for 7 weeks. Data are presented as log 2 of mean tumor volume (*P ⁇ 0.0001 vs. vehicle, and Fulv or dasatinib).
• Figure 11 (corresponding to Figure 5F of Martins et al, Cancer Discovery, 2015, 5(2): 154-67): In vivo antitumor activity of dasatinib against MDA-MB-231 and HCC1428 xenograft.
• Percent change in tumor volume of human cell lines xenografted into mice and treated daily with the indicated concentration of dasatinib via oral gavage. A minimum of 5 mice were used in each group, n.s. not significant.
• CDA- deficient tumors are susceptible to the specific toxic effects of a group of drugs as disclosed in table 4, such as aminoflavone, whereas cancer expressing high level of CDA are susceptible to the specific toxic effects of another group of drugs as disclosed in table 3, including dasatinib.
• CDA expression level can be used in cancer treatment as a new biomarker for selecting of the appropriate treatment.
• cancer refers to the presence of cells possessing characteristics typical of cancer-causing cells, such as uncontrolled proliferation, and/or immortality, and/or metastatic potential, and/or rapid growth and/or proliferation rate, and/or certain characteristic morphological features. This term refers to any type of malignancy (primary or metastases) in any type of subject. It may refer to solid tumor as well as hematopoietic tumor.
• sample means any sample containing cells derived from a subject, preferably a sample which contains nucleic acids. Examples of such samples include fluids such as blood, plasma, saliva, urine and seminal fluid samples as well as biopsies, organs, tissues or cell samples. The sample may be treated prior to its use.
• cancer sample refers to any sample containing tumoral cells derived from a patient, preferably a sample which contains nucleic acids. Preferably, the sample contains only tumoral cells.
• normal sample refers to any sample which does not contain any tumoral cells.
• a normal sample is a healthy sample.
• the terms “subject”, “individual” or “patient” are interchangeable and refer to an animal, preferably to a mammal, even more preferably to a human.
• the term “subject” can also refer to non-human animals, in particular mammals such as dogs, cats, horses, cows, pigs, sheep and non-human primates, among others.
• the term “marker” or “biomarker” refers to a measurable biological parameter that aid to predict the efficiency of a cancer treatment.
• treatment refers to any act intended to ameliorate the health status of patients such as therapy, prevention, prophylaxis and retardation of the disease.
• such term refers to the amelioration or eradication of a disease or symptoms associated with a disease.
• this term refers to minimizing the spread or worsening of the disease resulting from the administration of one or more therapeutic agents to a subject with such a disease.
• Quantity may refer to an absolute quantification of a molecule in a sample, or to a relative quantification of a molecule in a sample, i.e., relative to another value such as relative to a reference value as taught herein.
• active principle As used herein, the terms "active principle”, “active ingredient” “active pharmaceutical ingredient”, “therapeutic agent”, “antitumor compound”, and “antitumor agent” are equivalent and refer to a component having a therapeutic effect.
• the term "therapeutic effect” refers to an effect induced by an active ingredient or by a pharmaceutical composition according to the invention, capable to prevent or to delay the appearance or the development of a cancer, or to cure or to attenuate the effects of a cancer.
• the term "effective amount" refers to a quantity of an active ingredient which prevents, removes or reduces the deleterious effects of the disease.
• the methods of the invention may be in vivo, ex vivo or in vitro methods, preferably in vitro methods.
• the present invention concerns a method for selecting a patient affected with a tumor for a treatment with an antitumor compound or for predicting the response of a subject affected with a tumor to a treatment with an antitumor compound, wherein the method comprises:
• the method may further comprise a step of providing a cancer sample from said patient before the step (a).
• the method may further comprise a step of administering a therapeutically effective amount of a compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4 when patients have a CDA expression level of their cancer sample lower than the reference expression level and/or a therapeutically effective amount of a compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4 when patients have a CDA expression level of their cancer sample higher than the reference expression level.
• the present invention also concerns a method for excluding a patient affected with a tumor for a treatment with an antitumor compound or for predicting that a subject affected with a tumor will not be responding to a treatment with an antitumor compound, wherein the method comprises:
• the method may further comprise a step of providing a cancer sample from said patient before the step (a).
• the present invention also concerns a method for providing data useful for selecting a patient affected with a tumor for a treatment with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4 or with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3 or for determining whether a patient affected with a tumor is susceptible to benefit from a treatment with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4 or with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, wherein the method comprises providing a cancer sample from said patient, determining the expression level of CDA in said sample, comparing the expression level of CDA to a reference expression level, wherein the under-expression of CDA is predictive that a treatment with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4 is indicated for said patient and optionally selecting patients with under-expression of CDA for a treatment with an anti
• the present invention also concerns a method for selecting a patient affected with a tumor for a treatment with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4 or for determining whether a patient affected with a tumor is susceptible to benefit from a treatment with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4, wherein the method comprises determining the expression level of CDA in a cancer sample from said patient, comparing the expression level of CDA to a reference expression level and optionally selecting patients with under-expression of CDA for a treatment with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4.
• the method further comprises a previous step of providing a cancer sample from said patient.
• the present invention also concerns a method for selecting a patient affected with a tumor for a treatment with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3 or for determining whether a patient affected with a tumor is susceptible to benefit from a treatment with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, wherein the method comprises determining the expression level of CDA in a cancer sample from said patient, comparing the expression level of CDA to a reference expression level and optionally selecting patients with over-expression of CDA for a treatment with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3.
• the method further comprises a previous step of providing a cancer sample from said patient
• CDA Cytidine Deaminase
• the method of the invention comprise a first step of measuring the expression level of CDA in a cancer sample of a patient.
• Cytidine deaminase “Cytidine aminohydrolase”, “Cytosine Nucleoside Deaminase”, “Small Cytidine Deaminase”, “CDD”, “CDA”, and “EC 3.5.4.5”, as used herein, are equivalent and can be used one for the other.
• CDA Cytidine deaminase
• the expression level of CD A can be determined by a variety of techniques well known by the skilled person.
• the expression level of CDA is determined by measuring the quantity of CDA protein or CDA mRNA.
• the expression level of CDA is determined by measuring the quantity of CDA protein.
• the quantity of CDA protein may be measured by any methods known by the skilled person. Usually, these methods comprise contacting the sample with a binding partner capable of selectively interacting with the CDA protein present in the sample.
• the binding partner is generally a polyclonal or monoclonal antibody, preferably monoclonal.
• Such an antibody can be produced through methods known to the man skilled in the art. This antibody includes in particular those produced by a hybridoma and those produced by genetic engineering using host cells transformed with a recombinant expression vector carrying a gene encoding the antibody.
• a hybridoma producing monoclonal antibodies can be obtained as following: CDA protein or immunogenic fragments thereof are used as antigen for immunisation according to conventional methods of immunisation.
• the resulting immunocytes are fused with known parent cells according to conventional cell fusion methods and the cells producing the antibodies are thus screened from fused cells by conventional screening methods.
• the invention concerns an antibody specific of human CDA or fragment thereof.
• the quantity of CDA protein may be measured by semi-quantitative Western blots, enzyme-labeled and mediated immunoassays, such as ELISAs, biotin/avidin type assays, radioimmunoassay, Immunoelectrophoresis or immunoprecipitation or by protein or antibody arrays.
• the protein expression level may be assessed by immunohistochemistry.
• the reactions generally include revealing labels such as fluorescent, chemiluminescent, radioactive, enzymatic labels or dye molecules, or other methods for detecting the formation of a complex between the antigen and the antibody or antibodies reacted therewith.
• the quantity of CDA protein is measured with a labeled binding partner, which is tetrahydrouridine (THU).
• THU tetrahydrouridine
• THU is radiolabeled. THU is used at a concentration comprised between about 0.001 mg/kg and about 100 mg/kg, preferably between about 0.1 mg/kg and about 10 mg/kg, even more preferably between about 0.1 mg/kg and about 2 mg/kg.
• « about » refers to a range of values of + 10% of the specified value.
• « about 50 » comprise values of + 10% of 50, i.e. values in the range between 45 and 55.
• the term « about » refers to a range of values of + 5% of the specified value.
• the present invention concerns a method for selecting a patient affected with a tumor for a treatment with an antitumor compound or for predicting the response of a subject affected with a tumor to a treatment with an antitumor compound, wherein the method comprises:
• the invention also concerns a method for selecting a patient affected with a tumor for a treatment with an antitumor compound or for predicting the response of a subject affected with a tumor to a treatment with an antitumor compound, wherein the method comprises:
• the expression level of CDA is determined by measuring the quantity of CDA mRNA.
• Methods for determining the quantity of mRNA are well known in the art.
• mRNA can be detected by hybridization (e. g., Northern blot analysis) and/or amplification (e.g., RT-PCR).
• mRNA is detected by quantitative or semi-quantitative RT-PCR.
• Real-time quantitative or semi-quantitative RT-PCR is particularly advantageous.
• primer pairs were designed in order to overlap an intron. Other primers may be easily designed by the skilled person. Taqman probes specific of the CDA transcript may be used.
• Other methods of Amplification include ligase chain reaction (LCR), transcription-mediated amplification (TMA), strand displacement amplification (SDA) and nucleic acid sequence based amplification (NASBA).
• the expression level of CDA is determined by measuring the quantity of CDA mRNA, preferably by quantitative or semi-quantitative RT-PCR or by real-time quantitative or semi-quantitative RT-PCR.
• the method of the invention comprise, in a second step, the comparison of the CDA expression level of the cancer sample to a reference expression level.
• the reference expression level can be the CDA expression level in a normal sample or the average of the CDA expression levels of several normal samples.
• the reference expression level can be the expression level of CDA in a normal sample.
• the normal sample is a sample from the same tissue as the cancer sample or a tissue counterpart, even more preferably the normal sample is a sample from the same tissue as the cancer sample or a tissue counterpart of the same patient.
• the method of the invention may further comprise a step of providing a normal sample from the patient prior to step (a).
• the reference expression level can be the average of the CDA expression levels of several normal samples, preferably from several patients. Preferably, these normal samples are samples from the same tissue as the cancer sample or a tissue counterpart.
• the reference expression level is the expression level of CDA in a noncancerous cell-line or the average of the CDA expression level of several non-cancerous cell- lines, preferably said cell-line(s) derivate(s) from the same tissue as the cancer sample.
• the reference expression level may also be the average of the CDA expression levels of cancer samples from several patients, preferably cancer samples of the same tissue.
• the expression level of CDA can be determined by measuring the quantity of CDA protein or CDA mRNA as described above.
• the expression levels may be normalized using the expression level of an endogenous control gene having a stable expression in different cancer samples, such as RPLPO, RPL32, HPRT1, GAPDH, B2M, TBP and 18S genes.
• an endogenous control gene having a stable expression in different cancer samples such as RPLPO, RPL32, HPRT1, GAPDH, B2M, TBP and 18S genes.
• CDA level expression is considered to be lower than the reference level or CDA is considered as under-expressed if the expression level of CDA in the tumor of the patient is, optionally after normalization, at least 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 95, 99 % lower than the reference expression level.
• said cancer in which CDA expression level is lower than the reference expression level has a CDA expression level at least two times, preferably at least four times, more preferably at least six times, still preferably at least height time, less than the reference expression level, even more preferably said cancer do not express CDA.
• CDA level expression is considered to be higher than the reference level or CDA is considered as over-expressed if the expression level of CDA in the tumor of the patient is, optionally after normalization, at least 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 150, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 800, 1000 % higher than the reference expression level.
• said cancer in which CDA expression level is higher than the reference expression level has a CDA expression level at least two times, preferably at least four times, more preferably at least six times, still preferably at least height time, yet preferably at least ten times, even more preferably at least twenty times higher than the reference expression level.
• the intensity of CDA expression level can be scored from 0 to 3. Scores of 0-1 are considered as low CDA expression level and scores of 2-3 are considered as high CDA expression level. This scoring can be based on immunohistochemistry analysis with a CDA specific antibody, as described, for example, in Baldeyron et al (Mol Oncol, 2015, 9: 1580-98) or in the Material and Method of example 1. A score of 0 corresponds to no staining, a score of 1 corresponds to a weak staining, a score of 2 corresponds to a moderate staining, and a score of 3 corresponds to an intense staining.
• the method of the invention predict the efficiency of antitumor compounds according to the expression level of CDA in the cancer sample of a patient and thus allows to select patients for a treatment with these antitumor compounds.
• a CDA expression level of the cancer sample higher than the reference expression level is predictive of the efficacy of a treatment with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, derivatives and mixture thereof.
• the antitumor compound is selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3 having the following NSC (National Safety Code) numbers: 1006486 (laurusin), 732192 (dipterocaprol (hydroxydammarenone-11)), 621867 (lestaurtinib), 259272 (ara-amp), 39367 (9-pentofuranosyl- 6-(prop-2-en-l-ylsulfanyl)-9h-purine), 621864 (9-acetyl-9a-methoxy-l,2-dihydrocarbazol-3- one), 622155 (8,15-diisocyano-l l(20)-amphilectene), 366140 (pyrazoloacridine), 341960 (psoralin, b-dieth
• the antitumor compound is selected from the group consisting of lestaurtinib, pyrazoloacridine, fludarabine, triciribine phosphate, dasatinib, derivatives and mixture thereof. Still preferably, the antitumor compound is selected from the group consisting of pyrazoloacridine, dasatinib, derivatives and mixture thereof.
• the antitumor compound is selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3 and is not a nucleotide analog, preferably the antitumor compound is selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3 having the following NSC numbers: 1006486 (laurusin), 732192 (dipterocaprol (hydroxydammarenone-11)), 621867 (lestaurtinib), 621864 (9-acetyl-9a-methoxy- l,2-dihydrocarbazol-3-one), 622155 (8,15- diisocyano-l l(20)-amphilectene), 366140 (pyrazoloacridine), 341960 (psoralin, b-diethylamino- 5-ethoxy-), 207111 (3(2h)-isothiazolone, (z)-2-butenedioate (2: 1)), 759877 (dasatinib), 726512 (phloeodictine A 1), 7588
• the antitumor compound selected when CDA expression level is higher than the reference expression level is dasatinib.
• a CDA expression level of the cancer sample lower than the reference expression level is predictive of the efficacy of a treatment with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4, derivatives and mixture thereof.
• the antitumor compound is selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4 having the following NSC numbers: 733164 (5-hydroxyamino camptothecin), 341651 (senecioylchaparrin, 6-alpha- (b815099k220)), 737155 (borrelidin 3,11-bis-o-formyl ester), 638497 ((z) 4-acetoxy-3',4',5'-trimethoxystilbene), 124147 (harringtonine), 138780 (insariotoxin), 269756 (baccharinol), 5366 (noscapine), 710464 (AFP464, Aminoflavone), 66114 (physalin O), 328166 (8B-hydroxy-9B,10B-epoxyverrucarin
• the antitumor compound selected when CDA expression level is lower than the reference expression level is aminoflavone.
• the method of the invention is aimed to select a patient affected with a tumor for a treatment.
• the tumor can be a solid or a hematopoietic tumor.
• the tumor is a solid tumor.
• the tumor is from a cancer selected from the group consisting of the prostate cancer, the lung cancer, the breast cancer, the gastric cancer, the kidney cancer, the ovarian cancer, the hepatocellular cancer, the osteosarcoma, the melanoma, the hypopharynx cancer, the esophageal cancer, the endometrial cancer, the cervical cancer, the pancreatic cancer, the liver cancer, the colon or colorectal cancer, the neuroendocrine tumors, the malignant tumor of the muscle, the adrenal cancer, the thyroid cancer, the uterine cancer, the skin cancer, the bladder cancer, the head and neck cancer, the lymphoma, and the leukemia. More preferably, the tumor is from a cancer selected from the group consisting of lung cancer, the breast cancer, the ovarian cancer, the melanoma, and the cervical cancer.
• the cancer is a breast cancer.
• the patient is an animal, preferably a mammal, even more preferably a human.
• the patient can also be a non-human animal, in particular mammals such as dogs, cats, horses, cows, pigs, sheep, donkeys, rabbits, ferrets, gerbils, hamsters, chinchillas, rats, mice, guinea pigs and non-human primates, among others, that are in need of treatment.
• the human patient according to the invention may be a human at the prenatal stage, a new-born, a child, an infant, an adolescent or an adult, in particular an adult of at least 40 years old, preferably an adult of at least 50 years old, still more preferably an adult of at least 60 years old, even more preferably an adult of at least 70 years old.
• the patient has been diagnosed with a cancer.
• the patient has already received at least one line of treatment, preferably several lines of treatment.
• the antitumor compound according to the invention can be administered by any conventional route of administration.
• the antitumor compound can be formulated for a topical, enteral, oral, parenteral, intranasal, intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous or intraocular administration and the like.
• the treatment with the antitumor compound start no longer than a month, preferably no longer than a week, after the determination of the CDA expression level.
• the antitumor compound according to the invention may be administered as a single dose or in multiple doses.
• the treatment is administered regularly, preferably between every day and every month, more preferably between every day and every two weeks, even more preferably between every day and every week.
• the duration of treatment with the antitumor compound according to the invention is preferably comprised between 1 day and 24 weeks, more preferably between 1 day and 10 weeks, even more preferably between 1 day and 4 weeks. In a particular embodiment, the treatment last as long as the cancer persists.
• the amount of antitumor compound according to the invention to be administered has to be determined by standard procedure well known by those of ordinary skills in the art. Physiological data of the patient (e.g. age, size, weight, and physical general condition) and the routes of administration have to be taken into account to determine the appropriate dosage, so as a therapeutically effective amount will be administered to the patient.
• the dose of aminoflavone for each administration is comprised between about 1 mg/m 2 and 100 mg/m 2 , preferably between about 10 mg/m 2 and about 50 mg/m 2 , even more preferably between about 10 mg/m 2 and about 27 mg/m 2 .
• the dose of dasatinib for each administration is comprised between about 1 mg and about 1000 mg, preferably between about 10 mg and about 250 mg, even more preferably between 20 mg and 180 mg.
• one dose of dasatinib is administered daily.
• CDA regulating agent refers to a compound able to modify the expression level and/or the activity of CDA.
• a CDA regulating agent according to the invention can be a CDA enhancing agent or a CDA repressing agent.
• CDA enhancing agent refers to molecules that increase the expression level and/or the activity of CDA.
• CDA repressing agent refers to molecules that decrease the expression level and/or the activity of CDA.
• CDA enhancing agents according to the invention are selected from the group consisiting of vorinostat and DNA demethylating agents, preferably selected from the group consisting of 5-azacytidine (also known as azacitidine or 5-aza), 5-azadeoxycytidine (also known as decitabine or 5-aza-dC), procaine, and a mixture thereof.
• the CDA enhancing agent is vorinostat or 5-azadeoxycytidine, even more preferably the CDA enhancing agent is 5-azadeoxycytidine.
• the CDA enhancing agent is an expression vector allowing the expression of recombinant CDA in the target cells, in particular cancerous cells.
• the CDA enhancing agent is a molecule inhibiting the activity or the expression of the Estrogen Receptor 1 (ESR1).
• ESR1 Estrogen Receptor 1
• the molecule inhibiting the activity or expression of ESR1 can be an inhibitor of ESR1, such as the fulvestran, or an inhibitor of the expression of the ERS1 gene, such as a siRNA targeting the expression of the ESR1 gene.
• the CDA repressing agent is a cytidine deaminase inhibitor, preferably THU (tetrahydrouridine).
• the CDA repressing agent is a siRNA targeting the expression of CDA.
• the invention relates to a method for selecting a patient affected with a tumor for a treatment with a combination of a CDA enhancing agent and an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, wherein the method comprises:
• comparing the CDA expression level of the cancer sample to a reference expression level wherein a CDA expression level of the cancer sample lower or less than two times higher than the reference expression level is predictive of the efficacy of a treatment with a combination of a CDA enhancing agent, preferably a DNA demethylating agent, more preferably 5- azadeoxycytidine, and an antitumor compound selected selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, preferably dasatinib.
• a CDA enhancing agent preferably a DNA demethylating agent, more preferably 5- azadeoxycytidine
• (c) optionally, selecting patients with CDA expression level of their cancer sample lower or less than two times higher than the reference expression level as suitable for a treatment with a combination of a CDA enhancing agent, preferably a DNA demethylating agent, more preferably 5-azadeoxycytidine, and an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, preferably dasatinib.
• a CDA enhancing agent preferably a DNA demethylating agent, more preferably 5-azadeoxycytidine
• the invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition
• a CDA enhancing agent preferably a DNA demethylating agent, more preferably 5- azadeoxycytidine, and an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, preferably dasatinib, for use in the treatment of a cancer, preferably a cancer having a low CDA expression level when compared to a reference expression level or a CDA expression level less than two times higher than the reference expression level.
• the invention also refers to a product or kit containing
• a CDA enhancing agent preferably a DNA demethylating agent, more preferably 5- azadeoxycytidine
• the dose of 5-azadeoxycytidine for each administration to a patient is comprised between about 0.1 mg/kg and about 50 mg/kg, preferably between about 1 mg/kg and about 20 mg/kg.
• the invention relates to an in vitro method for selecting a patient affected with a tumor for a treatment with a combination of a CDA enhancing agent, preferably a DNA demethylating agent, and a nucleoside analog, wherein the method comprises:
• a CDA expression level of the cancer sample lower or less than two times higher than the reference expression level is predictive of the efficacy of a treatment with a combination of a CDA enhancing agent, preferably a DNA demethylating agent, more preferably 5- azadeoxycytidine, and a nucleoside analog,
• a CDA enhancing agent preferably a DNA demethylating agent, more preferably 5- azadeoxycytidine, and a nucleoside analog
• (c) optionally, selecting patients with CDA expression level of their cancer sample lower or less than two times higher than the reference expression level as suitable for a treatment with a combination of a CDA enhancing agent, preferably DNA demethylating agent, more preferably 5-azadeoxycytidine, and a nucleoside analog.
• a CDA enhancing agent preferably DNA demethylating agent, more preferably 5-azadeoxycytidine, and a nucleoside analog.
• the invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition
• a CDA enhancing agent preferably a DNA demethylating agent, more preferably 5- azadeoxycytidine, and a nucleoside analog, for use in the treatment of a cancer, preferably a cancer having a low CDA expression level when compared to a reference expression level or a CDA expression level less than two times higher than the reference expression level.
• the invention also refers to a product or kit containing (a) a CDA enhancing agent, preferably a DNA demethylating agent, more preferably 5- azadeoxycytidine, and (b) a nucleoside analog, as a combined preparation for simultaneous, separate or sequential use, in particular in the treatment of cancer, preferably preferably a cancer having a low CDA expression level when compared to a reference expression level or a CDA expression level less than two times higher than the reference expression level.
• a CDA enhancing agent preferably a DNA demethylating agent, more preferably 5- azadeoxycytidine
• a nucleoside analog as a combined preparation for simultaneous, separate or sequential use, in particular in the treatment of cancer, preferably preferably a cancer having a low CDA expression level when compared to a reference expression level or a CDA expression level less than two times higher than the reference expression level.
• the nucleoside analog is an oxidized and/or epigenetically modified cytidine nucleoside, more preferably the nucleoside agent is cytosine arabinoside, gemcitabine, or a combination thereof.
• the dose of 5-azadeoxycytidine for each administration to a patient is comprised between 1 about 0.1 mg/kg and about 50 mg/kg, preferably between about 1 mg/kg and about 20 mg/kg.
• the invention relates to an in vitro method for selecting a patient affected with a tumor for a treatment with a combination of a CDA enhancing agent, preferably a DNA demethylating agent, more preferably 5-azadeoxycytidine, an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, preferably dasatinib, and a nucleoside analog, wherein the method comprises:
• the invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition
• a CDA enhancing agent preferably a DNA demethylating agent, more preferably 5- azadeoxycytidine, an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, preferably dasatinib, and a nucleoside analog, for use in the treatment of a cancer, preferably a cancer having a low CDA expression level when compared to a reference expression level or a CDA expression level less than two times higher than the reference expression level.
• the nucleoside analog is an oxidized and/or epigenetically modified cytidine nucleoside, more preferably the nucleoside agent is cytosine arabinoside, gemcitabine, or a combination thereof.
• the dose of 5-azadeoxycytidine for each administration to a patient is comprised between about 0.1 mg/kg and about 50 mg/kg, preferably between about 1 mg/kg and about 20 mg/kg..
• the invention relates to a method for selecting a patient affected with a tumor for a treatment with a combination of a CDA repressing agent and an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4, wherein the method comprises:
• (c) optionally, selecting patients with CDA expression level of their cancer sample higher or less than two times lower than the reference expression level as suitable for a treatment with a combination of a CDA repressing agent, preferably THU, and an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4, preferably aminoflavone.
• a CDA repressing agent preferably THU
• an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4, preferably aminoflavone.
• the invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition
• a pharmaceutical composition comprising a CDA repressing agent, preferably THU, and an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4, preferably aminoflavone, for use in the treatment of a cancer, preferably a cancer having a high CDA expression level when compared to a reference expression level or a CDA expression level less than two times lower than the reference expression level.
• the invention also refers to a product or kit containing
• a CDA repressing agent preferably THU
• an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4, preferably aminoflavone, as a combined preparation for simultaneous, separate or sequential use, in particular in the treatment of cancer, preferably preferably a cancer having a high CDA expression level when compared to a reference expression level or a CDA expression level less than two times lower than the reference expression level.
• the dose of THU for each administration to a patient is comprised between about 0.1 mg/kg and 100 mg/kg, preferably between about 1 mg/kg and about 50 mg/kg, more preferably between 5 mg/kg and 20 mg/kg.
• the invention also concerns an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4, preferably aminoflavone, for use in the treatment of a cancer in which CDA expression level is lower than a reference expression level.
• the present invention also concerns the use of an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4, preferably aminoflavone, for the manufacture of a medicament for treating a cancer in which CDA expression level is lower than a reference expression level.
• an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4, preferably aminoflavone, for the manufacture of a medicament for treating a cancer in which CDA expression level is lower than a reference expression level.
• the invention also relates to a method for treating a patient affected with a cancer in which CDA expression level is lower than a reference expression level, wherein the method comprises a step of administrating an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4, preferably aminoflavone, to said patient.
• the invention also relates to a combination of a repressing agent, preferably THU, and an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4, preferably aminoflavone, for use in the treatment of a cancer in which CDA expression level is higher or less than two times lower than a reference expression level.
• a repressing agent preferably THU
• an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4, preferably aminoflavone
• the present invention also concerns the use of a combination of a CDA repressing agent, preferably THU, and an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4, preferably aminoflavone, for the manufacture of a medicament for treating a cancer in which CDA expression level is higher or less than two times lower than a reference expression level.
• a CDA repressing agent preferably THU
• an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4, preferably aminoflavone
• the invention also relates to a method for treating a patient affected with a cancer in which CDA expression level is higher or less than two times lower than a reference expression level, wherein the method comprises a step of administrating a combination of a repressing agent, preferably THU, and an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4, preferably aminoflavone, to said patient.
• a repressing agent preferably THU
• an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4 preferably aminoflavone
• the invention also concerns an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, preferably dasatinib, for use in the treatment of a cancer in which CDA expression level is higher than a reference expression level.
• the present invention also concerns the use of an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, preferably dasatinib, for the manufacture of a medicament for treating a cancer in which CDA expression level is higher than a reference expression level.
• the invention also relates to a method for treating a patient affected with a cancer in which CDA expression level is higher than a reference expression level, wherein the method comprises a step of administrating an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, preferably dasatinib, to said patient.
• the invention also relates to a combination of a CDA enhancing agent, preferably a DNA demethylating agent, and an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, preferably dasatinib, for use in the treatment of a cancer in which CDA expression level is lower or less than two times higher than a reference expression level.
• a CDA enhancing agent preferably a DNA demethylating agent
• an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, preferably dasatinib
• the present invention also concerns the use of a combination of a CDA enhancing agent, preferably a DNA demethylating agent, and an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, preferably dasatinib, for the manufacture of a medicament for treating a cancer in which CDA expression level is lower or less than two times higher than a reference expression level.
• a CDA enhancing agent preferably a DNA demethylating agent
• the invention also relates to a method for treating a patient affected with a cancer in which CDA expression level is lower or less than two times higher than a reference expression level, wherein the method comprises a step of administrating a combination of a CDA enhancing agent, preferably a DNA demethylating agent, and an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, preferably dasatinib, to said patient.
• a CDA enhancing agent preferably a DNA demethylating agent
• an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, preferably dasatinib
• the invention also relates to a combination of a CDA enhancing agent, preferably a DNA demethylating agent, and a nucleoside analog, for use in the treatment of a cancer in which CDA expression level is lower or less than two times higher than a reference expression level.
• a CDA enhancing agent preferably a DNA demethylating agent
• a nucleoside analog for use in the treatment of a cancer in which CDA expression level is lower or less than two times higher than a reference expression level.
• the present invention also concerns the use of a combination of a CDA enhancing agent, preferably a DNA demethylating agent, and a nucleoside analog, for the manufacture of a medicament for treating a cancer in which CDA expression level is lower or less than two times higher than a reference expression level.
• a CDA enhancing agent preferably a DNA demethylating agent
• a nucleoside analog for the manufacture of a medicament for treating a cancer in which CDA expression level is lower or less than two times higher than a reference expression level.
• the invention also relates to a method for treating a patient affected with a cancer in which CDA expression level is lower or less than two times higher than a reference expression level, wherein the method comprises a step of administrating a combination of a CDA enhancing agent, preferably a DNA demethylating agent, and a nucleosid analog to said patient.
• a CDA enhancing agent preferably a DNA demethylating agent
• the invention also relates to a combination of a CDA enhancing agent, preferably a DNA demethylating agent, an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, preferably dasatinib, and a nucleoside analog, for use in the treatment of a cancer in which CDA expression level is lower or less than two times higher than a reference expression level.
• a CDA enhancing agent preferably a DNA demethylating agent
• a nucleoside analog for use in the treatment of a cancer in which CDA expression level is lower or less than two times higher than a reference expression level.
• the present invention also concerns the use of a combination of a CDA enhancing agent, preferably a DNA demethylating agent, an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, preferably dasatinib, and a nucleoside analog, for the manufacture of a medicament for treating a cancer in which CDA expression level is lower or less than two times higher than a reference expression level.
• a CDA enhancing agent preferably a DNA demethylating agent
• a nucleoside analog for the manufacture of a medicament for treating a cancer in which CDA expression level is lower or less than two times higher than a reference expression level.
• the invention also relates to a method for treating a patient affected with a cancer in which CDA expression level is lower or less than two times higher than a reference expression level, wherein the method comprises a step of administrating a combination of a CDA enhancing agent, preferably a DNA demethylating agent, an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, preferably dasatinib, and a nucleosid analog to said patient.
• a CDA enhancing agent preferably a DNA demethylating agent
• an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, preferably dasatinib, and a nucleosid analog to said patient.
• the invention also concerns a method for screening or identifying an antitumor compound suitable for treating a cancer in which the CDA expression level is lower than a reference expression level comprising:
• the invention also concerns a method for screening or identifying an antitumor compound suitable for treating a cancer in which CDA expression level is higher than a reference expression level comprising:
• the reference expression level is the expression level of CDA in a noncancerous cell or the average of the CDA expression level of several non-cancerous cells, preferably said cell(s) originate(s) from the same tissue as the cancer cell.
• the reference expression level is the average of the CDA expression levels of cancer samples from several patients, preferably cancer samples of the same tissue as the cancer cell.
• the screening methods further comprises the selection of a test compound which do not reduce the proliferation rate of cells having a CDA expression level of about the reference expression level.
• the screening methods further comprises the selection of a test compound which do not reduce the proliferation rate of normal cells.
• the invention also concerns the use of the expression level of CDA as a marker for selecting a patient affected with a tumor for a treatment with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4 or with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, or for predicting the efficacy of a treatment with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4 or with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, wherein the CDA expression level of a cancer sample lower than the reference expression level being predictive of the efficacy of a treatment with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4, and wherein the CDA expression level of a cancer sample higher than the reference expression level being predictive of the efficacy of a treatment with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3.
• the invention also concerns the use of the expression level of CDA as a marker for selecting a patient affected with a tumor for a treatment with a combination of a CDA expression level increasing agent, preferably a DNA demethylating agent, an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, preferably dasatinib, and/or a nucleoside analog, or for predicting the efficacy of a treatment with a combination of a CDA expression level increasing agent, preferably a DNA demethylating agent, an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, preferably dasatinib, and/or a nucleoside analog, wherein the CDA expression level of a cancer sample lower or less than two times higher than the reference expression level being predictive of the efficacy of a treatment with a combination of CDA expression level increasing agent, preferably a DNA demethylating agent, an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, preferably dasatinib, and
• the invention also concerns the use of the expression level of CDA as a marker for selecting a patient affected with a tumor for a treatment with a combination of a CDA expression level decreasing agent, preferably THU, and an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4, preferably aminoflavone, or for predicting the efficacy of a treatment with a combination of a CDA expression level decreasing agent, preferably THU, an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4, preferably aminoflavone, wherein the CDA expression level of a cancer sample higher or less than two times lower than the reference expression level being predictive of the efficacy of a treatment with a combination of CDA expression level increasing agent, preferably THU, and an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4, preferably aminoflavone Kits
• the invention also concerns the use of a kit for selecting a patient affected with a tumor for a treatment with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4 or with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3 and/or for predicting the efficacy of a treatment with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 4 or with an antitumor compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds of table 3, and/or for screening or identifying an antitumor compound suitable for treating a cancer in which CDA expression level is lower than a reference expression level or an antitumor compound suitable for treating a cancer in which CDA expression level is higher than a reference expression level
• the kit comprises detection means selected from the group consisting of a pair of primers, a probe and an antibody specific to CDA or a radiolabeled THU, and a combination thereof, and, optionally, a leaflet providing guidelines to use such a kit.
• the inventors used 33 cancer cell lines in this study (cf. Table 5): 19 breast cancer cell lines from the Translational Research Department of the Curie Institute (ZR75-1, T47D, HCC-1428, BT- 474, MCF-7, MDA-MB-361, MDA-MB-468, MDA-MB-231, MDA-MB-436, HCC-38, HCC- 70, HCC-1187, HCC-1937, HCC-1143, BT-20, BT-549, HCC-1954, SKBR-3, HS578T) and two nonmalignant breast cell lines (MCF-12A and 184B5), four lung cancer cell lines (H522, H23, HOP-92, HOP-62), three ovarian cancer cell lines (IGROV-1 SKOV-3 and OVCAR-8) from the NCI, one melanoma cell line (A2058) from Dr.
• 19 breast cancer cell lines from the Translational Research Department of the Curie Institute ZR75-1, T47D, HCC-1428,
• RNA was isolated from cell lines continuously treated with 1 or 2.5 ⁇ of 5-Aza-2'-deoxycytidine (5-Aza-dC - Sigma Aldrich) for 96 hours.
• CDA 3-(4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazolyl)-2,5 diphenyl-2H- tetrazolium bromide (MTT- Life Technologies) in 96- well microplates.
• the functionality of CDA was assessed by plating HCC-1954 and IGROV-1 cells at densities of 2000 and 3000 cells/well, respectively, on the day before pretreatment and at a density of 800 cells/well for control conditions. Cells were then left untreated or subjected to pretreatment with 1 ⁇ 5-Aza- dC for 96 h. The cells were washed twice with PBS buffer, placed in fresh medium and incubated for 72 hours in the presence of various concentrations of gemcitabine, from 0.001 to 1 ⁇ (Sigma Aldrich).
• Aminoflavone cytotoxicity was evaluated after 72 h of treatment, by plating MCF-7, MDA-MB- 468, MDA-MB-231, SKOV-3, and OVCAR-8 cells at a density of 3000 cells/well and IGROV-1 cells at a density of 4000 cells/well.
• Aminoflavone (NSC 686288) was provided by Dr Yves Pommier (Developmental Therapeutics Branch - NCI).
• the 950 base pairs downstream from the translation initiation codon in the CDA promoter region and the four exons were amplified by PCR, with the Phusion Polymerase enzyme (Promega). The reaction was performed with 50 ng of genomic DNA isolated from 12 breast cancer and two normal-like cell lines. The specific primers used for amplification and nucleotide sequencing to base-pair resolution (Eurofins Genomics) are presented in Table 6.
• RT-qPCR real-time PCR
• total RNA was extracted from PDX tissues and from cell lines with the RNeasy Mini Kit (Qiagen). Reverse transcription was performed on 1 ⁇ g of RNA with the GoScript enzyme (Promega). The cDNA obtained was used at a dilution of 1/10 for real-time PCR with the SYBER Green supermix reagent (Biorad) in a Biorad CFX96 machine. Each sample was run in triplicate. Relative expression was determined by the 2 ⁇ &&Ct method. GAPDH and TBP were used as internal controls.
• the specific primers used for RT-qPCR analysis are presented in Table 7.
• Immunohistochemistry was carried out as described by Baldeyron et ah, (21). Briefly, paraffin-embedded tissue blocks obtained at the initial diagnosis were retrieved from the archives of the Biopathology Department of Curie Institute Hospital. Sections (3 ⁇ thick) were cut with a microtome from the paraffin-embedded tissue blocks. Tissue sections were dewaxed and rehydrated through a series of xylene and ethanol washes. A primary anti-CD A antibody (Ab) was used (cf. Table 9). The sections were processed with a Dako machine for immunostaining. The specificity of the CDA Ab was confirmed by applying the same protocol to paraffin-embedded human tissue sections and cell block sections.
• Ab primary anti-CD A antibody
• the sections were rehydrated by incubation in PBS for 5 minutes and then incubated with anti-CDA antibody for 1 hour. Antibody binding was detected by incubation with a secondary antibody coupled to a peroxidase-conjugated polymer (Dako Envision +) after treatment with DAB solution (Dako K3468) for 5 minutes, and Mayer's hematoxylin for 1 minute.
• the sections were then mounted in resin.
• CDA immunostaining on histological sections from 19 normal human tissues (20 samples per tissue) (Fig. 4D), and from 6 primary tumor tissues (50 samples per cancer type) (Fig. ID). For each section we evaluated two immunohistological scores:
• Intensity score Score 0: no staining, Score 1+: weak staining, Score 2+: moderate staining, Score 3+: intense staining.
• This H score was equal to 1 in normal colon tissue, and 1.5 in lung, breast, melanoma, ovary and endometrium normal tissues. It means that the expression of CDA in normal tissues is between > 1 and ⁇ 2.
• the cut-off of CDA expression in tumor tissues was defined as: CDA under- expression by H score between 0 and 1 (CDA low), and CDA overexpression by H score between 2 and 3 (CDA high).
• the PDX models used here were established as described by Marangoni et a/.(cf. Reference 21). Briefly, breast cancer fragments were obtained from patients at the time of surgery, with the prior written informed consent of the patients. Fragments (30 to 60 mm 3 ) were grafted subcutaneously into the interscapular fat pad of 8- to 12-week-old female Swiss nude mice, under avertin anesthesia. Mice were maintained in specific pathogen-free animal housing (Curie Institute) and received estrogen (17 mg/mL) in their drinking water. Xenografts appeared at the graft site two to eight months after grafting. They were subsequently transplanted from mouse to mouse and stored frozen in DMSO-fetal calf serum (FCS) solution or dry- frozen in liquid nitrogen for RNA isolation. The experimental protocol was performed in accordance with French regulations.
• FCS DMSO-fetal calf serum
• This assay was performed as described by Gemble et a/.(cf. Reference 19).
• cells were plated on glass slides in the presence of 10 ⁇ 5-bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) (Sigma Aldrich).
• colchicine (Sigma Aldrich) was added (0.1 ⁇ g/ml) and the cells were incubated for 1 h.
• Cells were then incubated in a hypotonic solution (1:5 (vol/vol) FCS- distilled water) and fixed with a 3: 1 (vol/vol) mixture of methanol and acetic acid. They were then stained by incubation with 10 ⁇ g/ml Hoechst 33258 (Sigma Aldrich) in distilled water for 20 minutes.
• the slides were rinsed with 2xSSC (Euromedex) and exposed to ultraviolet light at a wavelength of 365 nm and a distance of 10 cm for 105 minutes.
• the slides were then rinsed in water, stained with 2% Giemsa (VWR) for 16 minutes, rinsed in water, dried and mounted in EUKITT (Sigma Aldrich).
• Metaphases were captured and chromosomes were visualized under a Leica DMRB microscope at a magnification of xlOO. The number SCEs was evaluated per chromosome.
• the inventors analyzed 482,422 CpGs in the NCI-60 cell lines with Illumina Infinium Human Methylation 450 Beadchips.
• the DNA methylation datasets are available under accession number GSE66872.
• the methylation values are presented from 0 to 1.
• the data were normalized and analyzed as described by Nagales et al. (cf. Reference 22)
• a collection of 40 human breast tumor cell lines (mostly from ATCC) was established in the Translational Research Department of the Curie Institute. Gene expression profiles were generated with the Affymetrix Exon array and Genosplice algorithms to summarize multiprobe measurements as single mRNA levels.
• CDA expression levels were extracted from various transcriptomic datasets: breast tumor cell lines of the Curie Institute collection
• CDA expression is downregulated in a large panel of cancer cell lines and tissues
• the inventors first analyzed in silico CDA expression in various tumor cell lines studied by microarray analysis. They found that CDA was expressed weakly or not at all in 25 of 34 (73%) breast cancer cell lines from the Curie Institute and 44 of 60 (73%) cancer cell lines derived from nine different organs and tissues from the NCI (Fig. 1A, left and right panels). Similarly, about 60% (700) of the 1036 cancer cell lines from 24 different cancer tissues from the CCLE (Broad-Novartis Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia) database did not express CDA (Fig. 4A).
• the inventors investigated whether the absence of detectable CDA expression observed in the majority of cancer cell lines also applied to primary tumor tissues, by performing qPCR to analyze CDA mRNA levels in human primary breast tumors xenografted into nude mice (patient-derived xenografts, PDXs). This approach made it possible to avoid the contamination of primary tumor tissues with normal cells from the stroma (usually up to 30%). It was found that 56 of the 66 (-84%) human primary breast tumors studied had no significant CDA expression (Fig. 1C).
• CDA protein levels was also analyzed in six types of primary cancer tissues (50 per type) by immunohistochemistry (IHC) with an anti-CDA antibody validated by IHC on isogenic Bloom syndrome-derived cells not expressing CDA (BS-Ctrl) or expressing exogenous CDA (BS-CDA) (19) (see the materials and methods section and the Fig. 4D).
• CDA expression was stratified into two groups on the basis of staining intensity scores: CDA low (scores of 0 and 1) and CDA high (scores of 2 and 3) (Fig. ID). About 50% (endometrium) to 88% (breast triple-negative, ovary and colon) of cancer tissues displayed very low levels of CDA expression.
• the inventors then compared CDA mRNA levels between healthy and cancerous tissues of different origins, by replotting the CDA mRNA data downloaded from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) found in different genomic data sources (Nextbio, Oncomine). Tumor tissues are often contaminated with normal tissues that might express CDA, leading to inappropriate interpretations of CDA expression in some tumor tissues. Nevertheless, CDA expression levels were significantly lower in several tumors than in healthy tissues (Fig. IE, Fig. 4B, C).
• GEO Gene Expression Omnibus
• CDA is downregulated by DNA methylation
• CDA promoter and exons
• the inventors explored the possible role of epigenetic regulation of CDA gene expression.
• the CpG methylation sites were mapped in the CDA gene (Fig. 5E).
• the levels of methylation of the CDA promoter were then analyzed, using the dataset for the methylation of NCI60 cell lines (22). Pearson's correlation coefficients were calculated for the relationships between methylation at the various CpG methylation sites and CDA expression.
• CDA-deficient cell lines such as MCF-7, and IGROV-1
• no methylation was detected in cell lines overexpressing CDA, such as MDA-MB-231 and HOP-92, except for the LOXIMVI melanoma cell line.
• a set of cancer cell lines derived from breast, lung, ovarian and melanoma tumors not expressing CDA (Fig. IB and Fig. 5C) was treated with the DNA methyltransferase activity inhibitor 5-Aza-2'-deoxcytidine (5-Aza-dC), resulting in DNA demethylation (28).
• 5-Aza-dC was found to induce a strong increase (up to 1000-fold induction) in CDA mRNA levels ( Figure 2b) without major toxicity (Fig. 5D) in the 7 CDA- deficient cell lines analyzed.
• CDA-deficient cancer cells The selection of CDA overexpression in response to prolonged drug exposure is responsible for resistance to gemcitabine (16,29). Furthermore, the ectopic expression of CDA in CDA-deficient cancer cells leads to a significant increase in resistance to gemcitabine (16,30).
• the inventors thus evaluated the functionality of the CDA protein produced after 5-Aza-dC treatment, by breast and ovarian cancer cells, HCC-1954 and IGROV-1, respectively. The cells were left untreated or were subjected to pretreatment with 5-Aza-dC for 96 hours and then to treatment with various concentrations of gemcitabine over a period of 72 hours. The induction of CDA protein production by 5-Aza-dC led to a significant increase in gemcitabine resistance (Fig. 2C). Thus, the treatment of CDA-deficient cells with 5-Aza-dC strongly induced the production of a functional CDA protein.
• the inventors then analyzed in silico CDA promoter methylation levels (Fig. 5E) on TCGA samples for 22 different tissue cancers, using the CBioPortal for cancer genomics (http://www.cbioportal.org/) (31,32). A highly significant negative correlation was found between CDA transcript levels and CDA promoter methylation (Fig. 2D).
• Methylation of the cg04087271 methylation site was correlated with CDA deficiency in both tumor tissues and NCI60 cell lines, whereas methylation of the cg24502330 site was not, probably because this site was found to be methylated in only two tumor tissues, bladder and prostate, which were either absent (bladder) or did not present CDA deficiency (prostate) in the NCI60 panel of cell lines.
• CDA promoter methylation levels were significantly higher in samples with low CDA transcript levels (Fig. 2D) than in those with high CDA transcript levels.
• Loss of CDA expression in tumor cells defines a new tumor subgroup that could be specifically targeted by chemotherapy
• SCE frequency was significantly higher in the cancer cell lines not expressing CDA than in those expressing CDA ( Figure 3A).
• tumors from the same classically defined groups may display differences in CDA expression status resulting in contrasting cellular properties, such as SCE levels (e.g. CDA- proficient HCC-1143 cells and CDA-deficient BT-20 cells are both classified as triple-negative breast cancer cells).
• SCE levels e.g. CDA- proficient HCC-1143 cells and CDA-deficient BT-20 cells are both classified as triple-negative breast cancer cells.
• the inventors thus propose the use of CDA expression status in tumor cells to define two new subgroups: CDA-deficient tumors and CDA-proficient tumors. These new subgroups may differ in their sensitivity to antitumor therapies. The targeting of CDA-deficient tumor cells might therefore open up new possibilities for cancer therapy.
• the CellMiner web tool (33) can be used to assess the correlation between gene expression and drug sensitivity/resistance.
• the inventors searched for drugs with antiproliferative activity significantly correlated with CDA expression levels. 277 such drugs were identified, 94 of which were more toxic to CDA-deficient cells and 183 of which were more active against CDA-proficient cells (Tables 3 and 4).
• AF aminoflavone
• NSC 710464 NSC 710464
• CDA depletion was found to increase sensitivity to AF treatment significantly (Fig. 3C).
• the inventors then assessed the cytotoxicity of AF in six breast and ovary cancer cell lines, three of which were CDA-deficient (MCF-7, MDA-MB-468 and IGROV-1), the other three being CDA-proficient (MDA-MB-231, OVCAR-8 and SKOV-3).
• CDA-deficient cell lines were highly sensitive to AF treatment, whereas the CDA-proficient cell lines were resistant (Fig. 3D, left and right panels).
• DNA methylation may be the predominant mechanism of CDA silencing, but it is clearly not the only one, as some CDA-deficient cell lines present no CDA gene methylation.
• CDA has already been shown to play a crucial role in the response of cancer cells to widely used nucleoside analogs, such as cytosine arabinoside and gemcitabine, and the dose- limiting toxicity of these drugs (6,41-44). Our results suggest that IHC assessments of CDA levels could be used to determine the CDA status of tumors, with potential implications for treatment.
• Oxidized and epigenetically modified cytidine nucleosides specifically target tumors overexpressing CDA (17,18). It was found that 5-Aza-dC treatment strongly induced the expression of a functional CDA in CDA-deficient tumor cells, with little or no effect on CDA expression in CDA-proficient cells. These findings suggest that DNA-demethylating agents could be assessed as a possible treatment for CDA-deficient tumors, to induce CDA overexpression and then sensitize these tumors to treatment with oxidized and epigenetically modified cytidine nucleosides.
• cancer cell lines were used in this study (cf. table 5): 3 breast cancer cell lines from the Translational Research Department of the Curie Institute (MCF-7, MDA-MB-468 and MDA- MB-231) and two cervical cancer cell lines (HeLa-Ctrl and HeLa-shCDA).
• Cell viability was carried out with 3-(4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazolyl)-2,5 diphenyl-2H- tetrazolium bromide (MTT- Life Technologies) in 96-well microplates.
• the cell viability was assessed after dasatinib (Sigma Aldrich) treatment during 72h by plating MCF-7, MDA-MB-468 and MDA-MB-231 cells at densities of 3000 cells/well, and HeLa-Ctrl and HeLa-shCDA at 1500 cells.
• the CellMiner web tool (33) can be used to assess the correlation between gene expression and drug sensitivity/resistance.
• the inventors searched for drugs with antiproliferative activity significantly correlated with CDA expression levels. They identified 277 such drugs, 94 of which were more toxic to CDA-deficient cells (cf. table 4) and 183 of which were more active against CDA-proficient cells (cf. table 3). Among them, dasatinib, widely used in anti-cancer therapy, presented a highly significant positive correlation with CDA proficiency.
• the causality of the relationship between CDA proficiency and dasatinib anti- proliferative activity was evaluated by shRNA-mediated CDA depletion in HeLa cells (cf. upper left panel of figure 7). It was found that CDA-expressing HeLa cells were more sensitive to dasatinib treatment than CDA-depleted HeLa cells (cf. upper left and lower panels of figure 7).
• the cytotoxicity of dasatinib was then assessed in three breast cancer cell lines, two of which were CDA-deficient (MCF-7, MDA-MB-468), the other one being CDA-proficient (MDA-MB- 231).
• the CDA-deficient cell lines were resistant to dasatinib treatment, whereas the CDA- proficient cell line was sensitive (cf. upper right panel of figure 7).
• MCF-7 (1 x 107) were injected subcutaneously (s.c.) into the flank of female athymic nude (NCr/nu) mice (Animal Production Area, NCI-Frederick).
• Beta-estradiol cypionate (3 mg/kg) was administered intramuscularly every 7 days. Tumor size was determined by collecting length and width measurements and calculating the tumor weight (mg) as [tumor length x (tumor width)2]/2, where the tumor length is the longest dimension (mm) and the tumor width is the narrowest dimension (mm).
• AF saline/0.05% Tween 80
• mice per group were treated daily for 4 days with AF (60 mg/kg) or vehicle control. When mice were sacrificed (day 4), tumors from each animal were harvested and used to analyze mRNA and protein expression, as described previously.
• MDA-MB-468 and MDA-MB-231 xenograft (directly from Stark et al)
• the antitumor activity of vorinostat and AFP464, each given alone or in combination was evaluated using a mouse xenograft model of basal B subtype (or mesenchymal-like TNBC) MDA-MB-231 cells.
• the antitumor activity of AFP464 alone was assessed using a mouse xenograft model of basal A subtype (or basal-like TNBC) MDA-MB-468 cells, which has shown in vitro sensitivity to AFP464 and served as a positive experimental control.
• the animal study was carried out in strict accordance with the recommendations in the National Institutes of Health Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. The protocol was approved by the Wayne State University Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (protocol # A03- 10-08).
• mice Female athymic BALB/c mice (5-6 weeks of age) were obtained from NCI Frederick Animal Production Program (Charles River Laboratories, Frederick, MD) and housed under specific-pathogen-free conditions with water and food provided ad libitum. The mice were acclimated for 1 week prior to tumor cell implantation. MDA-MB-231 or MDA-MB-468 tumor fragments (30-50 mg) were implanted subcutaneously by trocar in the right and left flank area of each mouse. When established tumors were palpable (i.e., ⁇ 10 or 20 days after implantation of MDA-MB-231 or MDA-MB-468 cells, respectively), the mice were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups, and the treatments were initiated.
• mice were randomized into 6 groups (7 mice per group).
• the mice were pretreated with vorinostat (suspended in methylcellulose/0.1% Tween 80 solution, 50 mg/kg) by oral gavage (p.o.) daily for 3 days (i.e., on treatment days -3 to -1 and days 12 to 14) before being treated with AFP464 (dissolved in 5% glucose olution, 35 mg/kg) via tail vein injection (i.v.) on treatment days 1, 3, and 5 of a 14-day cycle for a total of 2 cycles.
• vorinostat sustained release of 3 days
• AFP464 dissolved in 5% glucose olution, 35 mg/kg
• tail vein injection i.v.
• mice were given the vehicle (methylcellulose/0.1% Tween 80 solution) orally for 3 days before being treated with AFP464 at a dose of 35 or 70 mg/kg i.v. on treatment days 1, 3, and 5 of a 14-day cycle for a total of 2 cycles.
• the mice were treated with vorinostat (50 mg/kg) p.o. on days -3 to -1 and days 12 to 14 and given the vehicle (5% glucose olution) at the same time as AFP464 administration in the combined treatment group.
• the mice were given the vehicle (methylcellulose/0.1% Tween 80 solution or 5% glucose solution) on a schedule matching that of the combined treatment group.
• mice were randomly assigned to 3 groups (7 mice per group).
• the mice were treated with AFP464 alone i.v. at a dose of 35 or 50 mg/kg, on days 1, 3, and 5 of a 14-day cycle for a total of 4 cycles.
• the mice were treated with 5% glucose solution i.v. on a schedule matching that of the treatment groups.
• Tumor size was measured two or three times per week with a digital caliper.
• the tumor volume was calculated as 0.5xlengthxwidth2.
• Tumor growth inhibition at an indicated time point was expressed as (l-VT/VC)xl00%, where VT and VC are the median tumor volume in the treatment and control groups, respectively.
• Overall drug tolerance for each treatment was evaluated by body weight changes and general health of the mice throughout the experiments. Body weight was measured daily for the duration of the study.
• the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) was defined as the dose inducing a maximum loss of body weight of less than 15% and/or no more than 10% treatment-related deaths [23].
• mice When the control group reached humane tumor burden limits (median tumor volume >1000 mm3), all mice were euthanized by cervical dislocation, and tumors were surgically removed. Half of the tumor was snap-frozen and used for subsequent western blot analysis of ERa, and the other half was fixed in 10% formalin and embedded in paraffin. Sections (4 ⁇ thick) of tumors were cut and fixed on slides and used for subsequent immunohistochemical staining for ERa and AhR.
• AF aminoflavone
• AFP464 alone did not show antitumor activity (0% inhibition) at a dose of either 35 or 70 mg/kg in the xenograft model using mesenchymal-like TNBC MDA-MB-231 cells (Figure 9B).
• AFP464 was well tolerated at a dose of 35 mg/kg, but 70 mg/kg induced up to 15% body weight loss and the death of 1 of 7 mice during the course of treatment.
• MCF-7 and MDA-MB-468 cells do not express detectable CDA, whereas MDA-MB-231 cells express high levels of CDA (cf. Fig. 1A and IB).
• mice Female ovariectomized athymic mice were implanted s.c. with a 14-day-release 17 ⁇ - estradiol pellet (0.17 mg) and 10 7 MCF-7 parental cells or stably transfected with LYN WT or LYN E159K . After 4 weeks, mice bearing tumors >150 mm 3 were randomly assigned to treatment with vehicle (80 mM sodium citrate buffer, pH 3), dasatinib (15 mg/kg/d, per os [p.o.]), BKM120 (30 mg/kg/d, p.o.) and fulvestrant (5 mg/wk, s.c), or BKM120, fulvestrant, and dasatinib.
• vehicle 80 mM sodium citrate buffer, pH 3
• dasatinib 15 mg/kg/d, per os [p.o.]
• BKM120 (30 mg/kg/d, p.o.
• fulvestrant 5 mg/wk, s.c
• mice (BALB/c nude/nude) were subcutaneously injected with 1.5x106 MDAMB231 cells or 6x106 HCC1428 cells mixed 1: 1 with Basement Membrane Matrix (BD Biosciences). Initial tumor dimensions were monitored three times weekly and the treatment was initiated when tumor volume reached about 80mm3. Once animals reached indicated tumor volume, they were randomly placed into control or treatment groups. Animals were treated with 50mg/kg crushed Dasatinb (Sprycel) tablets from the UCSF pharmacy dissolved in water daily for 14 days via oral gavage.
• Dasatinb Dasatinb
• Tumor volume was calculated daily from two diameter measurements using calipers, one along the anterior-posterior axis and the other along the lateral-medial axis. Percent change for tumor growth is based on volumes calculated from size on day 1 of treatment compared to day 15.
• MCF-7 and HCC1428 cells do not express detectable
• CDA whereas MDA-MB-231 cells express high levels of CDA (cf. Figures 1A and IB).
• siRNAs pools were purchased from Dharamcon.
• the estrogen positive cell line MCF-7 was reverse transfected with siCtrl or siESRl using lipofectamin® RNAiMax reagent (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturer conditions. After 96h, transfected cells were treated with increasing doses of Dasatinib for additional 72h, as indicated in the corresponding figure.
• the cells were plated at 1200 cells/well density in a 96 multiwall plate. The cells were released in fresh medium 24h following transfection.
• ERcc estrogen receptor
• the gene coding for ERcc, the ESRl gene was downregulated using specific siRNAs, and CDA expression level was analyzed. As shown in Figure 12A (left panels), ESRl silencing in MCF-7 cell lines strongly induces CDA expression.
• CDA expression is regulated, directly or indirectly, by ERcc, and (2) induction of CDA by silencing ESRl sensitizes breast cancer cells to dasatinib.
• Table 1 Comparison of CDA mRNA expression data between cancerous and non-cancerous tissues, from the Gene Expression across Normal and Tumor Tissue database (GENT) and in TCGA samples.
• Table 2 A Single-nucleotide polymorphisms identified by direct sequencing of the CDA gene (promoter, 5 'UTR, exons and 3 'UTR) from cancerous and non-cancerous breast cell lines.
• Table 2B Single-nucleotide polymorphisms identified by exome sequencing of the CDA gene from the NCI60 panel cell lines.
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• Cytidine deaminase genetic variants influence RNA expression and cytarabine cytotoxicity in acute myeloid leukemia. Pharmacogenomics. 2012;13:269-82.
• NSC 686288 a novel anticancer agent active against human breast cancer cells. Cancer Res. 2005;65:5337-43.

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